Kids Talk about TS on Oprah
Segment to Promote HBO/TSA Documentary,
"I Have Tourette's but Tourette's Doesn't Have Me"
On Tuesday, November 8, Amanda, Colin and Jasper, three of the young stars
of the HBO TSA documentary, “I Have Tourette’s but Tourette's Doesn’t
Have Me” will appear on the Oprah Winfrey Show to talk about life with Tourette
Syndrome and to promote the premiere on November 12 on HBO. Please check your
local listings for the date and time Oprah airs in your city.
The children and their mothers were flown to Chicago for the interviews where
they faced the daunting challenge of appearing before an attentive studio audience
and viewers around the world. Oprah involved the three mothers, who sat in the
front row, asking “When did you realize your children were different?”
and showed ten minutes of clips from the documentary.
The Oprah Winfrey Show is watched by an estimated 21 million viewers a week
in the United States and is also aired in 109 countries around the world. The
scale of the talk show’s reach dwarfs nearly every other opportunity to
promote awareness of TS. The campaign continues with an interview with Julie Chen
on the CBS Early Show, to air on November 11 (7:00 - 9:00 am ET).
The children’s appearances on Oprah and other television shows will help
TSA reach an extraordinary audience for the premiere of the documentary.
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